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 Lia KraemerGraduate Trainee - Clinical Psychology Advisor: Professor Tom Bradbury Year Entered Doctoral Program at UCLA: 2004 Undergraduate School/Major: U.C. Berkeley/Psychology Email:  Research: The main aim of my research is to assist the field of psychology to a greater understanding of emotion and stress in social interaction, particularly in close relationships, and how emotion and stress influence later physical well being. Specifically, I am interested in how emotion regulation strategies operate between spouses to influence the course of the interaction, the marital relationship, and their physical well being. I am also interested in the connection between emotion regulation and stress, with varying exposure to stressful life events hypothesized to influence the development of adaptive or maladaptive emotional expression when interacting with one's spouse. One of my primary research goals is to better explain the relationship between health and marital satisfaction by examining the presumed causal factors that account for both the positive health benefits of nondistressed marital relationships and the negative health outcomes of distressed marital relationships. I hypothesize that positive marital relationships encourage healthy behavior on a daily basis, and that these behaviors contribute to long-term positive health outcomes. Specifically, I believe that certain types of daily marital interactions assist spouses in regulating their emotions and their partner's emotions. Couples differ in how successfully they utilize these emotion regulation strategies during conflict and social support discussions. These strategies influence each partner's daily level of emotional arousal. This arousal may affect health status in multiple ways, such as by influencing endocrine functioning which in turn alters immune response (Kiecolt-Glaser & Glaser, 1989). I intend to examine these emotion regulation strategies, the consistency in strategy use over time, the connection between these strategies and marital satisfaction, and the connection between these strategies and positive or negative health outcomes. Publications and conference presentations: Kraemer, L., Stanton, A. L., Meyerowitz, B. E., Rowland, J. H., & Ganz, P. A. (2007). Couples' Coping Strategies as Predictors of Adjustment to Breast Cancer. Symposium paper to be presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, California. Kraemer, L., & Bradbury, T. (2006). The Influence of Personality, Stress, and Marital Communication on Later Marital Satisfaction. Poster presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois. Kraemer, L., & Bradbury, T. (2006). The Positive Impact of Stress and Marital Communication Behaviors on Later Marital Satisfaction. Poster presented at the International Association of Relationship Research's biannual meeting in Rethymno, Crete. Kraemer, L., & Bradbury, T. (2006). The Positive Impact of Stress and Marital Communication Behaviors on Later Marital Satisfaction. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, Palm Springs, California. Kraemer, L., & Bradbury, T. (2005). The Impact of Chronic and Acute Stress on Marital Satisfaction Over Time. Paper presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention, Washington, D.C. Kraemer, L., Keltner, D. & Campos, B. (2004). The Positive Role of Self Conscious Emotions in a Cultural Context. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, Austin, Texas. Langner, C., Walling, J., Kraemer, L., & Keltner, D. (2003). Explaining the Effects of Poverty: Dimensions of Societal Attributions and Related Cognitive Styles. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California. Honors and awards: National Science Foundation IGERT Fellowship 9/05-present Graduate Research Mentorship Program Fellowship, UCLA 5/05 Psychology Summer Research Mentorship Award, UCLA 5/05 National Science Foundation Honorable Mention 4/05 Edwin W. Pauley Fellowship, UCLA 10/04- 6/05 Distinguished Achievement Fellowship, UCLA Psychology Department 5/04- 6/05 Phi Beta Kappa Society Member 5/04- present Warner Brown Memorial Prize 5/04 Highest Honors in Psychology, UC Berkeley 5/04 Highest Distinction in General Scholarship, UC Berkeley 5/04 Center for the Development of Peace and Well-Being Undergraduate Fellowship 4/03 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley 4/03 Psi Chi Honor Society Member 11/02-5/04 Edward Frank Kraft Scholarship 1/01 Dean's Honors List at UC Berkeley 1/01 Robert C. Byrd Scholarship 4/00-5/04 UC Berkeley Regents' Scholar 4/00-5/04 Current hobbies, interests, extracurricular activities: Reading, writing, roller-blading, hiking, and watching old movies. |
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